Personalization Time!

I`ve even been customising some of my smaller

sketchbooks!

That`s it guys, I`ve officially finished sixth form now! I`ve been going on, and on, and on about sixth form for months on end now... But that`s it!

Since all of my storage boxes that I kept on my desk at
sixth form had gotten really dirty, I decided to jazz them up

Just a little bit.

I`ve been signed off of my course officially and I`ve handed in all units for my coursework, I`m still going in every now and again to scan in some work and help out the teachers by being their art technician; But work wise, I`ve done!
I`m extrememly happy and excited at the fact that I`ve finally finished sixth form... but what comes next?
Well for starts, I`ve had to bring every single piece of equipment home which means that my room is now full of folders, boxes and random glue sticks with no lids!

I`ve struggled a little bit with taking everything home and finding a way to store it all inside my tiny box room. luckily, I`ll be moving into my little sisters room, we`ll be swapping so I`ve got room for all of my University equipment and books. At the moment, there are boxes shoved underneath my bed and a bag of spare fabrics for my two new sewing machines, so it does feel quite weird having to have everything crammed inside my room... It`s even weirder not going into sixth form everyday.

I`ve even been through all of my sketchbooks and I`ve worked on customizing those quite a bit, like adding brown paper covers and adjusting the metal binders on them. So at the moment, it`s just getting things ready and trying to keep myself occupied with little things; soon, I will be working full time up until September which is when I`m starting university... So for now, I need to find something to do to keep me somewhat occupied!
Something that I have been trying out is small DIY bits, for instance; My friends found a small tutorial on how to make decorative hedgehogs  out of old books, no glue needed too! Unless your adding buttons and bows, then you may need a small amount, but apart from that, you just have to keep on folding the pages over and over again for it t be stable.
I won`t be writing the tutorial, I`ve got some small pictures above, but the tutorials can be found anywhere and I don`t quite see the point in copying off of them.

I`ve also got my hands on two sewing machines! I`ve got two as I bought a second hand old one, and then a friend from work had a spare one that was just sitting in her garage, so she`s kindly given it to me for free! Lately I`ve been messing around by doing a few bits on there, mainly just heart bunting for my new room; I haven`t used a sewing machine in about 2 years though, which is making it very awkward to get back into the habit of using. I have also begun to personalize one of the sewing machines, It` been spray painted plain black at the moment, I just need some gold spray paint to add the splatters over the top of the black. So, it`s not quite there yet, but spray painting it black beats the dirty look it had before.

Over summer, I`m going to be investing some money in a scanner so I can keep on uploading my work to deviantart and on this art blog. Hopefully, I can find somewhere local that sells fabrics and small bags of stuffing so I can keep on producing small bits of work on my new sewing machines. Hopefully, I`m also going to buy a pattern book for my sewing machines, so I can make things that will actually be wearable, should be fun to experiment with over the summer holidays!

I`m also hoping, really, really hoping that I can go back to shed2studios at some point to go back and do some work with Dawn Turner! If you can`t remember Dawn, she is a local glass artist that let me work with her for a few days within her studio space... she`s amazing! Even though I`ll be working full time next month, I`m hoping to see her for a couple of days just as a catch up before University and of course, for advice! I`m hoping to do quite a bit of work within glass myself, and I`m hoping that she can give me some advice on where to start.
Looking forward to this summer!


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